Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, fourth type
Ivan Alexander1331-1371
- Metal
- Copper
- Mint
- Cherven
- Diameter
- 19; 17 mm
- Weight
- 1.3; 0.9 g
- Rarity
- R6 — between 200 and 600 known
Obverse
Large equal-armed cross with expanded ends, with symmetrical decoration at the bottom in the form of acanthus leaves. Above the transverse arm are the initials IC - ХС. The image resembles 1.13.15-18.
Reverse
Tsar Ivan Alexander, standing, full-length, with stemma with pendilia. He is dressed in divitision and maniakion. A loros is draped across his chest and left arm. In His right hand He holds a sceptre with a cross, with a short handle, and His left hand is on the waist holding a sword(?). Without inscriptions.
Also struck by Ivan Alexander
- Silver groshes, Tarnovo mint, first type
- Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, first type
- Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, second type
- Copper coins with scyphate form, Tarnovo mint, third type
- Flat copper coin, Tarnovo mint, first pattern elite die
- Lightly scyphate copper coin, Tarnovo mint, fourth type
- Copper coins with flat form, Tarnovo mint, fifth type
- Copper coins with flat form, Tarnovo mint, sixth type
- Copper coins with lightly scyphate form, Tarnovo mint, seventh type
- Flat copper coins, presumed Shumen - Preslav mint
- Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, first type
- Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, second type
- Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, third type
- Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, fifth type
- Flat copper coins, presumed Cherven mint, sixth type
- Copper scyphate coins, presumed Cherven mint, seventh type
- Copper scyphate coins, presumed Cherven mint, eighth type
- Copper slightly scyphate coins, presumed Cherven mint, ninth type
- Copper slightly scyphate coins, unlocalised mint
- Anonymous flat copper coins, Tarnovo mint, first type
- Anonymous flat copper coins, Tarnovo mint, second type
Coin photographs and reconstruction drawings from A. Radushev & G. Zhekov, Catalogue of Bulgarian Medieval Coins IX–XV c. (Agató, 1999).
























